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171 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

faire un dessin (dans ce contexte)

Context:

Je ne vous promets rien, Michael! Je vais essayer de joindre cet homme, mais ça peut...

Keywords:

...prendre des jours, voire des semaines avant qu'il ne me donne de ses nouvelles. Je ne vais pas vous faire un dessin, il est très souvent à l'étranger...Something like "I can't really map it out for you?"

 

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171 months ago

Noelle Ward  See profile wrote:

Do you get the picture?

My comment:

or "do you get my drift?" he's often overseas... he's very hard to get a hold of - it can take days if not weeks before I hear from him.

171 months ago

Arvid Eldring  See profile wrote:

I am not going to draw it up for you

171 months ago

Arvid Eldring  See profile wrote:

I don't have to draw you a picture?

171 months ago

Geoff Bing  See profile wrote:

I won't spell it out for you

My comment:

as above lol

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171 months ago

Geoff Bing  See profile wrote:

as below*

171 months ago

Geoff Bing  See profile wrote:

I won't spell it out for you

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171 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

Yes, or I can't tell you exactly. Lots of options.

171 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

yes, this is what I would say

171 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

In your context, what about "I won't go into detail" or "I'll spare you the details" :-)

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